After a week of spirited debates over the 2026 National Budget, Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh has accused the opposition of “chronic and barefaced distortion.” Dr Singh was the last contributor to the budget debate, a task that allowed him to analyse and respond to each presentation before him. Throughout his three-hour-long presentation on Friday...

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Education Minister Sonia Parag has rejected claims that she breached confidentiality by releasing “sensitive information” on Opposition Member of Parliament Gordon Barker’s attendance at school during her recent Budget debate presentation. Barker is a teacher and represents the We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) Party in the National Assembly. The Minister referenced Barker’s attendance in her...

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Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh said the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) has always put people first, a sentiment he expressed as he championed this year’s $1.558 trillion budget. Budget 2026, the first of the current People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) administration following its landslide victory in the September 2025 elections, represents a 12.7 per cent...

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…demands tougher oversight of oil fund …slams falling birth rate, soaring cost of living …flags chronic power outages …warns fishing industry in sharp decline By Renay Sambach (Kaieteur News) – Newly-elected Leader of the Opposition Azruddin Mohamed in his maiden budget debate speech on Friday evening launched a blistering critique of the 2026 National Budget, outlining […]

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(Kaieteur News) – Leader of the Opposition Azruddin Mohamed, who is currently before the local courts battling an extradition request by the United States, used his maiden budget debate speech on Friday evening to urge government Members of Parliament (MPs) to release details on a second extradition request received from the U.S. last year. “Let the […]

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(Reuters) – An attacker opened fire at the gates of a Shi’ite Muslim mosque in Islamabad on Friday before setting off a suicide bomb and killing at least 31 people in the deadliest attack of its kind in Pakistan’s capital in more than a decade. More than 170 others were wounded in the explosion, detonated […]

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